[R] Negative AIC

Corrado ct529 at york.ac.uk
Thu Sep 10 17:02:16 CEST 2009


My worry is: can I compare negative AIC with positive AIC? does the comparison 
still hold?

On Thursday 10 September 2009 15:57:01 Ben Bolker wrote:
> Corrado-5 wrote:
> > Dear R list,
> >
> > I just obtained a negative AIC for two models (-221.7E+4
> >  and -230.2E+4). Is that normal?
>
> It's not necessarily wrong.  See <http://emdbolker.wikidot.com/faq>



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